Tuesday, May 31, 2016

With the oil-price collapse, finding work in Fort McMurray was no longer as easy as falling off a log.

Provide kids with more opportunities than you had: This may sound like falling off a log but, in it’s not. In this day and age, just being a good parent and ensuring that your children have a chance for a better life than you had is an incredibly honorable and difficult goal to achieve. And the payoff is a better next generation.

One might presume that getting central bankers to run their printing presses would be as easy for them as falling off a log. But Jeff deGraaf, who heads Renaissance Macro Research, last week noted that the year-over-year expansion of global central-bank liquidity (from the Fed, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the assets of the People’s Bank of China, and China’s currency reserves, plus assets of sovereign-wealth funds) has turned negative.

"I want to sleep like a log just once," said most Korean soldiers when asked about their biggest difficulty and discomfort in military life, a survey said Tuesday.

Anyone who crosses time zones regularly knows that jet lag can put a damper on your trip. But poor quality sleep can also hurt your health. Adjust more easily (and sleep like a log) by requesting an east-facing hotel room, suggests James Maas, Ph.D., a leading sleep expert and author of Sleep for Success. Exposing yourself to morning sunlight can help your body adapt to your new surroundings, he says.